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Many people are ushered into managerial positions without the required managerial training. Some become managers through a promotion that come in recognition of their technical expertise. Others become managers through formal management training. What makes the difference, does it matter how one get to be a manager? Does the manager's skills reflect in team performance, are teams a reflection of their managers? Other people refuse to take responsibility...
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An easy-to-use guide for ambitious managers on how to create a high-trust high-performance workplace, based on survey input from two million employees in eighty countries. Widely translated and published in eight editions, Trust Rules achieved Amazon #1 Best Seller (International Business) within one week of launch and was a long-listed 'Non-Obvious Book Award' 2018 Winner. The authors are high-profile Great Place to Work insiders: writer and management...
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The most successful organizations add a healthy dose of play into their daily or weekly routines. In fact, research has shown that when people actually enjoy their jobs they're more creative, more productive, and more committed to doing their jobs well. Companies like the Colorado Health Sciences Center and Southwest Airlines attest to the positive effect of fun at work. Both trace increased job satisfaction and decreased employee downtime to concerted...
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Do people drive you nuts? Are silos and turf wars challenging the culture? Wondering if it ever gets any easier? The toughest - and best - part of leadership is the people. But let's face it, people dynamics can be tricky. Solutions are within. People Stuff is your map to the complex territory of human behavior and leadership strategies. People Stuff goes well beyond frustrating 'personality clashes' to uncover the dynamics of human interactions at...
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Speakers and author of the bestselling books Maximum Achievement and The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success, offers 21 proven strategies that will give you a competitive edge in selecting and keeping excellent people. Concise, handy, quick to read and easy to apply, from corner cubicle to corporate suite, managers today say their biggest concern is the competition for talent. The critical constraint on the growth and success of any...
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Our current models for ending conflict don't really work. They waste incredible amounts of time, money, and energy and take an enormous emotional toll on participants. The parties remain embittered, relationships are destroyed, and often the conflict just reappears later in a different form. In this second edition of his classic book, Stewart Levine offers a revolutionary alternative approach that goes beyond compromise and capitulation to provide...
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They did what?! That would never happen here. Yes it can, and it certainly will if you don't become proactive in learning how to avoid the disastrous scenarios befalling companies every day. Written by a seasoned HR expert and employment attorney, Hard-Won Wisdom takes you inside the messy reality of situations gone wrong, including:
• A joking comment taken as a command
• An email exchange that escalates ridiculously out of control
• A request...
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Your people might be your organization's greatest assets, but their interactions with one another are what determine the quality and the quantity of their contributions. Few organizations know how to generate the sense of excitement, energy, and shared mission that occurs when people truly join together. This book shows how, describing four simple behavioral keys that fundamentally change how people work together - building greater trust, understanding...
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Change Is Everybody's Business challenges readers to realize the power they have to make things happen-to support, stymie, or redirect change. Pat McLagan draws on her thirty years of experience consulting on change projects worldwide to outline the beliefs, character traits, and actions that will enable anyone to welcome change and take advantage of it rather than fear and resist it. Taking a conversational approach to a serious subject, she uses...
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How can multinational companies implement DEI initiatives across different countries and cultures? This book offers five proven principles for advancing social justice with a nuanced understanding of local customs.
DEI cannot be addressed globally through a single-culture worldview. The specifics of a successful DEI change effort in the United States may be irrelevant in another country. Succeeding locally, understanding the market and acknowledging...
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Imagine overseeing a workforce so motivated that employees relish more hours of work, shoulder more responsibility themselves; and favor challenging jobs over paychecks or bonuses. In One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? Frederick Herzberg shows managers how to shift from relying on extrinsic incentives to activating the real drivers of high performance: interesting, challenging work and the opportunity to continually achieve and grow into...
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This book is for those who think that human resources is fundamental to organisation success. It focuses on how to create, develop, and implement workforce information based on HR arguments to address the needs of the organisation. What needs to be understood, the book is for practitioners: those who will implement HR practices to obtain greater output from the employees. The approach is fresh where the perspective is from HR data.
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This book clarifies both the differences and the links between HRD and Personnel Management. It discusses the important considerations for designing an effective HRD programme in an organization. What behavioural sciences data are necessary in planning HRD systems. How does the manager's own concept of man, work and society inadvertently influence the kind of programme that the organization may develop. What are the organizational practices that hinder...
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In this thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the bestselling guide (over 20,000 of the 1st edition sold) to employee recognition, author Cindy Ventrice explores how managers need to adapt their recognition strategies to deal with global, virtual, and generational realities. Additions include chapters on workplace culture, fairness, and remote communication.
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Revolutions are typically huge and dominating events in the world's history accompanied by radical, visible change. The current revolution is in this regard 'silent' yet change is everywhere. The changes in organisational life are affecting management and the way in which businesses are being run.In this volatile context the Human Resource (HR) function need to be strategically correctly positioned. It needs to be 'reinvented' and positioned in terms...
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The barrier to start a business is at its lowest but the task to start, build and run one is as difficult as it has ever been. There are legal challenges to be faced within employment law; there's the cost of hiring and managing employees, whilst trying to avoid and prevent sexual harassment, bullying and terminations - to name just a few.
From 'Hire to Fire & Everything In Between' reveals Natasha's 9 Step Employee Life Cycle, which shares everything...
20) The Only HR Best Practice You'll Ever Need: - Leaders Often Miss the Obvious In People Management
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People are complex, but your human resource strategy doesn't have to be. A grassroots and practical approach to what leaders and HR teams often over-complicate, dealing with their people.
HR veterans with 40+ years combined experience, Wendy Giuffre and Ashley Kieboom share simple and straightforward solutions to common human resource management situations. Leadership and HR teams will be asking themselves, "Why didn't we think of that?
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